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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editorial Department, chairman, E. A. Mays; sub-chairmen, A. D. Bell; G. C. Homans, B. E. Pollak, and J. W. Sandford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARPER ANNOUNCES RED BOOK BOARD OFFICERS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Skirmish | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...bulk of the Student Council meeting last night was consumed in discussion of the new House plan for the sub-division of the College. President Lowell reviewed the history and purpose of the plan and pointed to various difficulties which would have to be never come in its execution. The members of the Council then sought enlightenment on various points which were still obsurce to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. L. LEWIS PICKED TO ASSIGN JUNIORS NEXT YEAR'S ROOMS | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...expounding U.S. prohibition Britannia's informant referred glibly to the "Volstead Amendment," although even sub-morons know that no such amendment exists. It did not appear from the context whether the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment was meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...great sub rosa concern of Protestant Episcopal bishops, priests, laymen who met at Washington last week for their 49th triennial convention was hierarchy. Nominally the bishops are co-equal with John Gardner Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans among them talk of creating archbishops. Others oppose them tooth and claw. Of this denominational stress little appeared when the convention opened last week and little of anything else. The time was spent shaking hands and preparing for contest of the next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalian Congress | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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